Monster Patches

 I love summer-time because my boys can wear shorts.  And shorts = no holes in the knees.  But it is officially autumn here and we are back to wearing pants.  And we always have lots of holey pants.  

I patch them on the inside.  I patch them on the outside (sometime with camo patches which my boys love).  But this time I decided to try something a little different--a monster patch.  (I was inspired by this post which I found on Pinterest but since it's in another language I had to make up my own instructions and that's why I'm sharing my tutorial!)

First I flipped the pant leg inside out and roughly stitched a large square of red fabric over the hole. I folded the fabric in half so that it will (hopefully) last a while.  Make sure that your square is much bigger than the actual hole.  And I used  blue thread so that you wouldn't be able to see it from the right side.

Next, I cut some jagged teeth and big round eyes out of felt. I put the teeth right inside the hole and stitched them in (again with blue thread).  Then I stitched on the eyes with white thread and gave him x's with green embroidery floss. 

 It was pretty easy and W loved them!  In fact, I think every boy in his class loved it too.  He came home so pleased that everyone wanted his monster patch.